Bible Encyclopedias
Oceanica

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

the name given to the fifth division of the globe, comprising all the islands which intervene between the south-eastern shores of the continent of Asia and the western shores of the American continent. It naturally divides itself into three great sections — Malay Archipelago, Australasia (q.v.) or Melanesia, and Polynesia (q.v.).